The Dayton Jewish Observer, November 2015

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Their blood cries out More than 100 years ago, five Dayton girls and young women were brutally strangled and raped.

Brian Forschner says he knows who did it.

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Temple Beth Or will hold its Annual Chanukah Bazaar on Sunday, Nov. 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and Wednesday, Nov. 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Along with Chanukah items available for purchase in the Judaica shop, local artisans and vendors will be on site.

The Temple Beth Or Brisketeers will

have lunch available for purchase on Nov. 18 including brisket sandwiches, latkes, sufganiyot (doughnuts), and chopped liver. Brisket and chopped liver will also be available for bulk purchase by preorder. To place an order, email judaicashop@templebethor.com or call 435-3400.

Symposium on Jesus, Judaism, Jewish-Christian relations Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, profeslecture The Bible and Israel/ sor of New Testament and Palestine: Jewish and Christian Jewish studies at Vanderbilt Dialogue and Disputation.

Divinity School and College of Levine will also present Arts and Sciences, will present the talk Hearing Jesus’ Parables two lectures for the 37th Annuthrough First-Century Jewish Ears al Ryterband Symposium, on at 7:30 p.m. Both programs are Wednesday, Nov. 4 at United free and open to the public.

Theological Seminary.

The Ryterband Symposium She is the author of The Misis co-sponsored by The Uniunderstood Jew: The Church and Dr. Amy-Jill Levine versity of Dayton, Wright State the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, University, and United Theoand Short Stories by Jesus: the Enigmatic logical Seminary.

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United Theological Seminary is locatLevine describes herself as a “Yankee ed at 4501 Denlinger Road in Trotwood.

Jewish feminist who teaches in a preFor more information about the dominantly Christian divinity school in symposium, call Wright State University the buckle of the Bible Belt.”

Zusman Prof. of Judaic Studies Dr. Mark At 3:30 p.m., Levine will deliver the Verman at 775-2461.

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THE DAYTON JEWISH OBSERVER • NOVEMBER 2015

DAYTON Marshall Weiss

Their blood cries out More than 100 years ago, five Dayton girls and young women were strangled and raped. Brian Forschner says he knows who did it.

By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Brian Forschner descends the hill to the back edge of Beth Jacob Cemetery on Old Troy Pike.

He finds the modest headstone he is looking for in the last row, just before a tree-lined drop.

The Hebrew on the stone is all but worn away, the name on top barely discernible in English: Anna Markowitz.

“This is now one of the prettier spots,” Forschner says of the site.

When 18-year-old Anna was buried here on Aug. 14, 1907, one reporter described it as “the most dismal spot of the dismal little cemetery.”

Thousands attended the funeral of this daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants. Anna and her parents had arrived in Dayton from Covington, Ky. just two months before.

On the night of Aug. 11, Anna had been strangled and then raped at McCabe Park.

With little to go on, police initially arrested her sister and two brothers; they were permitted to leave jail to attend Anna’s funeral.

Newspapers across the United States and overseas reported on the case.

Two months later, three elected officials — the county prosecutor, sheriff, and coroner — sweated a confession out of a man from Dayton’s black community in Tintown, Layton Cincinnati Post photoillustration of Anna Markowitz Hines, who today

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On trial, Hines recanted his admission of guilt; he claimed the officials threatened to send him to the electric chair unless he confessed. Hines was sentenced to life imprisonment.

But Forschner, who has a background in criminal justice, says Dayton police weren’t convinced of Hines’ guilt.

Two females in Dayton had already been strangled and then raped — 11-year-old Ada Lantz in 1900 and 19-year-old Dona Gilman in 1906. After Brian Forschner places a stone on the grave of Anna Markowitz, at Beth Jacob the Markowitz case, two Cemetery. He believes he’s solved the Markowitz murder and rape case, along more would be strangled and with murder and rape cases of four other Dayton girls between 1900 and 1909. raped in Dayton — 18-yearHis book, Cold Serial: The Jack the Strangler Murders, delves into the cases. old Lizzie Fulhart sometime between 1908 and ‘09, and 15-year-old Mary Forschner in 1909. o These four other cases would go unsolved.

Move t Mary was Brian Forschner’s great-aunt. His research into her murder led him to the stories of the four other girls. Forschner is certain a serial killer was responsible for the girls’ brutal murders.

And he believes it was Temple Israel’s janitor who did it.

Forschner convincingly lays out the evidence in his book, Cold Serial: The Jack the Strangler Murders, which was released on Oct. 6.

(Full disclosure: I helped Forschner in his research about Dayton’s Jewish community during the time period he covers in Cold Serial.)

As part of the JCC Cultural Arts & Book Fest, he’ll lead two bus tours to the crime scenes, on Sunday, Nov. 15, to show how he arrived at his conclusions. The 2 p.m bus is sold out; tickets are still available for the 4 p.m. tour. Joining him for the tours will be attorney David Greer, to offer Continued on Page Five

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From the editor’s desk

The community wanted to forget. That’s the only conclusion I can draw from author Brian Forschner’s book, Cold Serial, which details the sickening crimes committed in Dayton against girls Marshall and young women from 1900 to Weiss 1910. These murders and rapes, virtually unspeakable in that era, wove their way through our Jewish community too. I imagine it was too painful to contemplate; everyone just moved on. After police informed Temple Israel’s rabbi, David Lefkowitz, that the congregation’s janitor had raped a young woman at knife point in the rabbi’s study, all he could bring himself to tell the press was that he would cancel services.

Lefkowitz was a beloved community leader and social-justice activist in the Jewish and general communities. Forschner found that in Lefkowitz’s papers, housed at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, there is no mention of the incident.

He didn’t talk about it publicly or write about it privately; or maybe at some point it was removed.

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The University of Dayton and Wright State University will host commemorations for Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust, in November 1938.

Both events are free and open to the public.

The University of Dayton will hold its observance on Monday, Nov. 9 at 5 p.m. in the Immaculate Conception Chapel. The ceremony will include testimony from Dayton Holocaust Resource Center Chair Renate Frydman and Kindertransport survivor Felix Weil, a candlelighting ceremony, and a musical remembrance by UD’s World Music Choir.

For more information about the UD observance, call Crystal Sullivan at 229-3339.

Wright State will present its commemoration on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Room E163 of the Student Union. Concentration camp survivor Sam Heider will be the guest speaker. For more information, call Zusman Prof. of Judaics Dr. Mark Verman at 775-2461.

Dayton Playhouse presents Anne Frank

The Dayton Playhouse will present the 1997 Broadway adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank by Wendy Kesselman, from Nov. 6 to 15. In addition to showing the day-to-day lives of eight people forced into hiding by the Nazis for two years, the new adaptation also shows glimpses of what the characters were like before the Holocaust.

Performances are Fridays and Anne Frank Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. The Dayton Playhouse is at 1301 Siebenthaler Ave. Tickets are available by calling the box office at 424-8477 or at daytonplayhouse.com.

Interfaith Thanksgiving service Temple Beth Or will host an interfaith Thanksgiving service on Monday, Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m., with clergy and congregants from Christ United Methodist Church, David’s United Church of Christ, and St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church.

This is the 28th year the congregations have come together for the Thanksgiving service. For more information, call Temple Beth Or at 435-3400.

Interfaith lunch & learns  

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Christ Episcopal Church’s Rev. Dr. John Paddock, First Baptist Church’s Rev. Dr. Rodney Kennedy, and Temple Israel’s Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz will lead interfaith lunch and learn programs Thursdays at noon on Oct. 29 at Temple Israel (130 Riverside Dr., Dayton), Nov. 5 at Christ Episcopal (20 W. First St., Dayton), and Nov. 12 at First Baptist (111 W. Monument Ave, Dayton). The public is invited to bring lunch and participate. For more information, call Temple Israel at 496-0050.

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Continued from Page Three historical context, and actor Scott Stoney, who will provide a voice from the time period.

Stoney portrayed one of Hines’ defense lawyers when Dayton History reenacted the Anna Markowitz murder trial as part of its Old Case Files performances at the Old Court House in 2013.

“You’re going to hear the actual headlines the day these things were announced,” Forschner says of the bus tour, “and you’ll get a sense of how this serial killer operated.”

The term serial killer didn’t exist in the first half of the 20th century. The Western world was familiar with Jack the Ripper’s killings in London in 1888 but little was known about the nature and patterns of such murders and murderers.

“Forensics was in its infancy,” says Forschner, who holds a master’s degree in corrections and education, and a Ph.D. in human behavior/public administration.

A native of Dayton who makes his home in Cincinnati, Forschner has taught criminal justice classes at the University of Dayton. He is also retired from his position as president of senior health and housing services for Mercy Health Partners.

In the first decade of the 20th century, fingerprinting wasn’t yet common in police use across the United States. Blood typing was also in its infancy.

“If a person didn’t confess, or you didn’t see him do it or there wasn’t circumstantial evidence, there wasn’t anything to do,” Forschner says.

Serial murders, he says, were not unique to Dayton at that time.

“Dayton was just massively growing, from about 70-80,000 in 10 years to about 150,000, and people of all languages, all ethnicities, moving in.”

In this booming industrial city, where anyone who wanted The JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest will present author Brian Forschner leading a bus tour about the crimes featured in Cold Serial, on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. (the 2 p.m. bus tour is sold out). Tickets, which include a copy of the book, are $20 and are available at jewishdayton. org, by calling 610-1555, or at the Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville.

employment could find it, young women worked all three shifts in factories such as NCR or toiled at rolling cigars.

The city of Dayton couldn’t keep up with such basic needs as a large enough police force and adequate street lighting.

Young women came and went to work in Dayton via trolley lines from their homes outside the city limits at all hours.

At first, Forschner says, these Dayton murders were covered nationally and internationally in the press because of their sensational nature.

“The media was already hyped because of Jack the Ripper, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in The Rue Morgue (with an orangutan that murders with a razor blade), Sweeney Todd penny dreadfuls,” he says. “A lot of criminals were described as man-gorilla, fiends, apes.”

These images only further inflamed the racism of the times.

“If there was a crime, particularly a rape, they (Dayton police) would roust the black community,” Forschner says.

After Hines’ coerced confession to the murder of Anna Markowitz, the Rev. J.G. Robinson of the Eaker Street A.M.E. Church railed from the pulpit, “The mistake of one white man is laid at the door of the individual making the mistake; the mistake of one Negro is charged up against the whole race.”

By the time of the Markowitz murder, crime reporters from outside of Dayton who were assigned here noticed patterns that led them to conclude one person had strangled and raped the girls. Two years later, after the Forschner and Fulhart murders, the superintendent of Cleveland State Hospital public-

been arrested in Dayton (previknown as Temple Israel. ously) a number of times,” he White had lured 25-year old says. “He was doing predatory Bessie Stickford of Springfield things with young girls. He to B’nai Yeshurun on Feb. 4, tried to pull a girl through a 1910 with the promise of a job interview. He raped her at knife grandstand.”

In many ways, Cold Serial point in the rabbi’s study. is a yin to the yang of David Exactly a year before, Lizzie Fulhart’s corpse had been found McCullough’s bestselling new book, The Wright Brothers. in a cistern in an alley behind Dayton prides itself on the the synagogue. spirit of innovation that came Bessie survived White’s asout of that first decade of the sault and identified him. White was convicted, and imprisoned 20th century.

In the same place and time, — only for Bessie’s rape.

Cold Serial paints a portrait of a Between his escape from the Ohio Penitentiary mug shot of Hick crisis White, janitor at B’nai Yeshurun, ES TA U R that A Nbrought T out the worst Ohio Penitentiary inR1912 and now Temple Israel. Forschner is White’s return to prison in 1922, in Dayton’s citizens and public convinced White murdered and on for the whole. two girls in Cincinnati Thedisapperfectservants place raped the five girls whose cases he In composite, government, peared and one was bludgeoned profiles in his book. your graduation party. media, private detectives, and and raped. even neighbors seemed more Forschner believes White was ly agreed with this theory.

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More likely, he says, Dayton’s leaders chose not to pursue the serial killer theory for fear that it would prove even worse for Dayton’s reputation.

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How Jerusalem is coping with the attacks: Police and pepper spray

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much, much quieter.”

For Mizrahi, business is booming. He has sold about twice as many handguns as usual the past two weeks, and he applauds the government’s recent decision to relax Israel’s strict gun laws.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has urged licensed gun owners to carry their weapons in the street, and was himself photographed toting a firearm.

Itzhak Mizrahi (L), owner of a Jerusalem gun shop, says his business is booming “We take the guns not to attack, just to defend,” primitive tools to protect them- store, Yair Kouhara, 18, said he said Mizrahi, a pistol lying by selves. On a warm, sunny day, a hadn’t made a sale all mornhis hand. man walked hurriedly past the ing. But having lived through Others have looked to more central Zion Square holding an the second intifada as a child, umbrella like a spear. A woman Kouhara said he was unfazed carrying shopping bags tucked by the terror. a mop handle — sans mop — “We’re here not doing anyunder her right arm. One man thing all day,” Kouhara said.

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By Ben Sales, JTA JERUSALEM — “No pepper spray, no tear gas, no nightsticks,” sighed Itzhak Mizrahi to three disappointed men, as if it were a mantra he’d recited dozens of times.

The glass-topped display case in Magnum, the central Jerusalem gun shop that Mizrahi has owned for three decades, featured a wide variety of pistols. The pepper spray compartment, however, was empty, stormed earlier in the week by nervous Israelis hoping to defend themselves from stabbing attacks.

The country is suffering a nationwide pepper-spray shortage, Mizrahi said. As the men left, Mizrahi told them he hoped to restock his tear gas

supply early next week.

Jerusalem’s streets and shops have been desolate for several days, and its atmosphere tense.

A string of stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks in the city in October have killed seven Israelis as of Oct. 18, and paralyzed the city center, leading its residents to take measures to protect themselves.

Many others are staying inside rather than risk getting knifed.

In their place are security guards, checkpoints and police vans.

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“If you were careful and you were lucky to live in the right place, you’d be fine,” said Margalit Cohen, 39, referring to the violence that wracked the city from 2000 to 2005. “It doesn’t feel like that now. Now it really feels like anywhere you go, it could be there.”

Cohen, like many other parents, has responded by driving her kids everywhere, a departure from the Israeli tendency to let children run free. And she makes sure her kids play inside or with close supervision.

In the usually tranquil Tel Aviv suburb of Raanana, the Israeli Scouts youth group postponed its events after two stabbings in the city. And with videos of stabbings and shootings flooding social media, parents have grown doubtful about their ability to shield kids from the violence.

“My kids have access to everything,” Cohen said. “I think it’s probably not so good. We’re all completely crazy because we have everything online, and we see everything online the minute it happens. It makes us completely nuts.”

Benjamin, the British immigrant, no longer plays Candy Crush on her phone or checks the news as she walks. She doesn’t wear heels, in case she needs to run. And when

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the past week rather than walk. she waits for the bus, she “People aren’t going out. The stands behind the shelsecurity situation is terrible.” tered bus stop. Some of Jewish- and Arab-Israelis her friends have taken have tried to ease the stress self-defense classes, a step with humor. One spoof of a she thinks is a bit much. self-defense video showed the “I just think it’s part of victim conjuring a fireball with this hysterical panic, and I his bare hands to deter an atdon’t want to be a part of tacker. that,” she said. ”Walking The lone Arab resident of a around with pepper spray Tel Aviv apartment building — that’s not the world I became a viral sensation when want to live in.” he posted to Facebook a selfie As the Israeli governwith a notice inviting residents ment has encouraged to discuss the security threat civilian vigilance, its own he supposedly represented. response has been miliThe photo was captioned: “I’m tary. Hundreds of soldiers coming and I’ll bring muffins!” and policeman have been Self-defense measures are deployed across JerusaIsraeli Border Police guarding a checkpoint in the eastern Jerusalem largely coping mechanisms, lem and stationed along neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, Oct. 15 too, said Jerusalem shopkeeper main streets.

Kesem Atedgi, 21. The city, he A soldier holding a rifle proached, they stopped the are also suffering from the said, won’t be secured by pepguarded one of the city’s light vehicle for a few minutes of tension. On the road to the per spray. rail stops, while a police officer questioning.

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God weeps over religious violence The first human interaction: Brother murders brother

By Gary Rosenblatt Sadly, the latest book from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks — former chief rabbi of Great Britain and widely admired around the world as a leading Jewish thinker — is all too timely.

It’s called Not In God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence (Schocken Books), and it deals with precisely the kind of hatred expressed by Sheik Muhammad Sallah of Gaza, who recently urged Palestinians in the West Bank to stab Jews. “Stab the myths of the Talmud in their minds...Stab the myths about the Temple in their hearts.”

Clearly, the hatred at the core of such exhortations is religious, not political; the enemy is not just Israel, it’s Jews.

And the message is painfully familiar, to the point that we no longer respond with shock to the ongoing hateful, antisemitic rants of Friday sermons by sheiks or to the Palestinian media, with newspaper headlines and cartoons for children on television that portray Jews as pigs, and worse.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calls for calm one day and tells his people the next that “every drop of blood spilled for Allah” is “clean and pure.”

The violent attacks by Arabs on Jews in recent weeks have been different from the past two intifadas, at least until now.

The assailants, for the most part, have been lone young men and women, not sophisticated militant groups. The weapons have been knives and other primitive instruments, not bombs.

And the motivation has not been “the occupation” or “the settlements” but the false belief that the Israeli government plans to allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. (Why Israel decided, just after the 1967 War, to ban Jews from Judaism’s holiest site speaks to its desire to avoid a religious war between Jews and Muslims.)

Further, the assaults have been as primitive as the first human interaction between the children of Adam and Eve

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in the Bible, the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain.

All these centuries later, the children of Abraham shed their cousins’ blood with a vengeance, literally.

Have we made any progress over thousands of years, with countless wars carried out in God’s name in what Sacks calls acts of “altruistic evil,” violence carried out by the followers of one religious tradition against those of a different belief?

Far too often, whether the aggressors were Christians or Muslims, the victims were Jews.

In his book, Sacks decries a 21stcentury Mideast where loving God has come to mean hating God’s enemies, an us-versus-them climate that finds ISIS committing beheadings and crucifixions in the name of Allah.

Witnessing such acts, the rabbi said in an interview the other day, reminds him of God’s reaction, cited in Genesis 6: 5-6, on seeing man’s “wickedness.”

“And the Lord regretted that He had made man on earth, and His heart was saddened.”

In his book, a work that began more than a dozen years ago, Sacks offers a deep and creative interpretation of stories of violence in the Bible, with an emphasis on the sibling rivalries in Genesis, including Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Rachel and Leah, and Joseph and his brothers.

“This book was not written for Jews primarily, but for Christians and Muslims — one that they could read without feeling that they were being put on the defensive,” he told me.

He offers an alternative reading of key Bible stories to correct what he considers the common interpretation that there are clear favorites among the siblings. He asserts, for example, that Ishmael, the firstborn son of Abraham and father of the Arab nation, was not rejected by God. The rabbi hopes his book will be “the beginning of a conversation to show Christians, Jews and Muslims that we can create a new path. You have to construct a politics of hope,” he said, “if you want to defeat the politics of fear.”

Imam Abdullah Antepli, the founding director of Duke University’s Center for Muslim Life and a self-described member of the “moderate Muslim majority,” agrees with the rabbi’s thesis that while Christian antisemitism is rooted in its theology, antisemitism entered Islam from the outside and only recently.

The imam, who was born in Turkey and came to the United States at the age of 30, said he was raised in a secular,

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very antisemitic home, and became an avid student of Judaism after he studied the Koran and came to believe that antisemitism was not authentic Islam.

He has not yet read the new Rabbi Sacks book but, informed of its close readings and reinterpretations of biblical rivalries, he told me that the problems with Islam’s view of Jews today are “historical, cultural and political, not primarily theological.” He went further in suggesting that Sacks’ “esoteric” reading of biblical events are “irrelevant,” given the nature of the current political conflict over Israel.

Antepli compared the Muslim-Jewish relationship to a couple’s attitudes toward each other after a painful divorce, forgetting all the positive memories and focusing on the current bitterness.

He noted that while the Muslim-Jewish relationship was never “rosy,” in centuries past there were long periods of Muslim tolerance of Jews in their lands.

This reality is completely overshadowed by the events of 1948, he said, when the state of Israel was created and perceived as the usurper of Arab land.

The imam decried the current forms of antisemitic violence as “horrific and growing” among Muslims around the world, and noted that “the silence of lazy Jewish, Christian and Muslim moderates empowers the crazies.”

Sacks is hopeful that his book can help foster religious understanding, beginning with leaders of the three respective faiths, and can be transmitted to their adherents around the world.

He insists that “the use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry” and that “to invoke God to justify violence against the innocent is not an act of sanctity but of sacrilege.”

Anyone who believes that man was created in God’s image should promote the rabbi’s thesis. The future of world events may well depend on the success of efforts to convince Islamic fundamentalists that God’s “heart is saddened,” not satisfied, by their bloody acts of hatred.

Gary Rosenblatt is editor and publisher of The New York Jewish Week.

Amid violence, Arab-Israeli newscaster takes pride in Jewish state

By Debra Kamin, JTA TEL AVIV — Lucy Aharish never wanted to be a political symbol. The 34-year-old Arab-Israeli news presenter and television host didn’t even want to be a journalist. When she graduated from high school in the hard-knock southern Israeli town of Dimona, her plan was to be an actress.

But her father insisted she earn a degree in something practical, she told The Times of Israel in April. So she paired theatre studies with a political science degree at Hebrew University, and put in two more years studying journalism at the Koteret school in Tel Aviv.

She has now been on the Israeli news for eight years, and her face and accentfree Hebrew are familiar to Israelis. But what exactly she symbolizes is hotly contested — as became clear in October when she went on Ariel Schalit/AP Images a tirade against Arab-Israeli leadership and culture on air amid a surge in Palestinian violence and an Israeli crackdown.

“Arab leaders …are adding fire Lucy Aharish to the environment and instead of understanding that once it will calm down, we will be the ones to pay the price,” she said on Channel 2. “The second intifada took such a heavy price from Israeli-Arabs and the Palestinians. We are not learning from the mistakes.”

Aharish got her start in 2007 on Israel’s Channel 10, making history as the nation’s first Arab news presenter before putting in serious time in the West Bank as the channel’s Palestinian affairs reporter. Today she hosts the daily English edition of i24news and a Hebrew-language morning show on Channel 2. She remains one of the few Arab-Israelis on the news.

Known among Jewish-Israelis as a rare moderate Arab voice, Aharish takes pride in the Jewish state and has been willing to openly criticize her fellow Arab-Israelis.

“The problem with the Arab minority is that it sees itself as a victim,” she told the Washington Post in April, shortly before she made history by joining 13 other Israelis to light a torch at the nation’s pomp-and-circumstance-heavy Independence Day ceremony. “Yes, there is racism against Arabs in Israel; yes, the Arabs do not get their entire rights. But I am not a victim of Israel; I am a human being and a citizen.”

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Who was Haj Amin al-Husseini?

By Ben Sales, JTA TEL AVIV — When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem prior to the establishment of Israel, for inspiring Hitler to exterminate the Jews of Europe, he meant to show the long history of Palestinian antisemitism.

Regardless of his intent, Netanyahu was hit with a tsunami of backlash from historians and politicians who accused him of distorting history. Yad Vashem, the Anti-Defamation League and the German government have all criticized the historical accuracy of the prime minister’s claim, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman even reiterating German responsibility for the genocide.

Netanyahu walked back the statement on Oct. 21, saying he had “no intention to absolve Hitler of responsibility for his diabolical destruction of European Jewry.”

Here’s who the mufti was, how he felt about a Jewish state, and what really hap-

pened between him and Hitler.

Born in Jerusalem near the turn of the 20th century, Husseini came from a prominent Palestinian family. In 1921, Palestine’s British rulers installed him as the grand mufti of Jerusalem, a religious leadership position.

Husseini was an advocate for Arab nationalism, and in 1936 he joined with other Palestinian leaders in revolt against the British. The revolt lasted until 1939, claimed thousands of lives, including hundreds of Jews, and led the British to seek an exit from the territory. In 1937, the British removed Husseini from his position, prompting him to flee to Lebanon.

During World War II, Husseini supported an anti-British rebellion in Iraq and became the rebels’ envoy to Germany and Italy. When the rebellion was suppressed, he fled to Italy and continued his contacts with the Axis powers from there, famously meeting with Adolf Hitler in November 1941. He continued to sup-

The source of Netanyahu’s claim that Husseini bears responsibility for the Holocaust stems from his famous port the Nazis in various ways meeting with Hitler on Nov. throughout the war.

28, 1941. Husseini at the time After the war, Husseini escaped to Beirut, his influence was seeking German support for Arab independence from diminished. He died there in colonial rule, 1974.

The Wyman Insitute and records of Husseini the meeting opposed any attributed to a accommodaBritish archive tion of a Jewish show that Husnational home seini focused in what would his requests on become Israel. a formal Nazi He opposed declaration of the 1939 British support for White Paper, de“the indepenspite its ban on dence and Jewish immigra- Mufti Amin el-Husseini meeting unity of Palestion to Palestine, Hitler in Berlin, Nov. 28, 1941 tine, Syria, and because it set Iraq” under Arab rule. too long a timeline for an Arab According to the British restate. And he opposed the 1947 cord, Husseini told Hitler, “The United Nations partition plan Arabs were Germany’s natural that sought to create neighborfriends because they had the ing Jewish and Palestinian same enemies as had Germany, states. namely the English, the Jews, Husseini also backed and the Communists.” He also violence against Jews. In 1920, thanked Hitler for supporting he organized an anti-British “the elimination of the Jewish demonstration in Jerusalem national home.” that grew violent and was Contrary to Netanyahu’s assubsequently convicted of sertion, nowhere in the record incitement.

is there a suggestion that Husseini told Hitler to exterminate Europe’s Jews. The record does report that Hitler announced his intentions, noting that he planned to “ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem.”

“To say Hitler was influenced by the mufti is far from the truth,” said Hebrew University professor Moshe Maoz.

“He didn’t need the mufti to perform the extermination.”

According to Maoz, Palestinians today see Husseini as one of their national fathers. But their admiration is mitigated, he said, because Husseini was so strongly pro-Nazi and was ineffective in advancing the Palestinian cause.

His stature among Palestinians, Maoz said, pales to that of Yasser Arafat, whose memory enjoys near universal reverence. But Palestinians tend not to criticize Husseini in public, Maoz said, because they want to display unity.

“Not a few Palestinians think he wasn’t so positive,” Maoz said. “He was very stubborn. But those who oppose him don’t emphasize it out of solidarity.”

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Tarnegol hodu, a bird called turkey Thanksgiving is on the way, so let’s talk turkey, but in Hebrew. The Hebrew

Dr. Rachel Zohar Dulin name for the American turkey is tarnegol hodu, literally rooster of India.

Why, in Hebrew, is an indigenous American bird connected with India?

Some theorize the name was originally given to a fowl imported to European markets from Madagascar by Turkish merchants.

The bird, which was large and tasty, received the name turkey after the country of origin of its importers.

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Others claim an Hebraic origin for the name of the American bird. Accordingly, Columbus, whose roots may have been Jewish, knew some Hebrew and upon seeing the colorful bird called it tuki, Hebrew for parrot. With the years, it was altered to the familiar name turkey, Europe’s favorite fowl.

In Hebrew, unlike English, the bird is identified with India rather than Turkey, echoing the early explorers’ misidentification of the Western Hemisphere with India.

In English, the indigenous population was misnamed; in Hebrew, the indigenous bird was misnamed.

Tarnegol hodu, the Hebrew name for turkey, is based on two unrelated languages. First, tarnegol, which means rooster, is derived from the ancient Sumerian word tarlugal meaning the king’s bird, and mentioned often in the Talmud but not in the Bible.

Hodu is the biblical name for India (Esther 1:1), which is derived from the Persian word Hindu, a name for the region around the Indus River.

By the way, Russian, Polish, and Yiddish also call turkey an Indian bird.

And even in Turkish it is called Hindi, namely India.

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It is amusing to note that in Hebrew the term tarnegol hodu is used to describe a person who angers easily or is conceited because, like a turkey, the person’s feathers are easily ruffled.

The word hodu is not only a name of a country, but also the plural imperative of the Hebrew verb yadah, meaning confess, thank, praise and agree, which appears in the Bible more than a hundred times. The word todah, thanks, is derived from the same root.

So, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, enjoying the family gathering around the table with tarnegol hodu at the center of the meal, let the words of the biblical poet — “Hodu lAdoshem ki tov, Praise the Lord, for He is good (Psalms 107:1)” — resonate with joy.

Dr. Rachel Zohar Dulin is a professor of biblical literature at Spertus College in Chicago and an adjunct professor of Bible and Hebrew at New College of Florida.

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L’dor V’dor:

Our Next Generation

Leyton Sweeny & David Siegal

Jewish Federation of GREATER DAYTON

learn the meaning of tzedakah from the start in JCC

Boonshoft CJCE will be closed the following dates: »»November 26 »»November 27

Sunday, November 22 › Heroes Among Us 2:30PM @ Hillel Academy (305 Sugar Camp Circle, 45409) Hillel Academy students present original vignettes based on Jewish stories and books featuring PJ Library book Boker Tov! Snacks and activities. Free for families.

Early Childhood Care & Education.

For our Jewish Future BE A PART OF THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT. In 2012, the 92nd Street Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association, along with the United Nations Foundation, founded #GivingTuesday. Inspired by the core Jewish value of Tikkun Olam, #GivingTuesday was established as a day to celebrate and encourage giving amongst the commercialization and consumerism of the postThanksgiving season. Last year, more than 10,000 organizations in 46 countries came together to participate in this important day.

This year, we are proud to take part in this global movement. By giving to the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton on #GivingTuesday, you help give our Annual Campaign that extra bump, which pushes us closer to our 2015 goal. Donations made on December 1, as part of #GivingTuesday, will be matched by the Levin Family Foundation, up to $1,000.

You may donate online at www.jewishdayton.org, or by calling Caryl at 401-1558. Please help us make $1,000 become $2,000. Every amount counts. Thank you!

HEROES Among Us RSVPs are due at least 1 week before event. Events with no price listed are free.

PLEASE CONTACT KAREN STEIGER REGARDING ALL EVENTS UNLESS NOTED: 610-1555, ksteiger@jfgd.net

November 22 @ 2:30PM at Hillel Academy of Greater Dayton (305 Sugar Camp Circle, 45409)

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Jewish Community Center of GREATER DAYTON ABOVE: Debra Stewart leads Tai Chi. Join in on

Wednesday, November 4, 6–8PM & Thursday, November 5, 4:30–6:30PM › Children’s Theatre Auditions @ 400 Sugar Camp Circle Contact Mary Wyke at mwyke@ jfgd.net for more information or to sign up.

Thursdays 4–5PM, or come for Yoga, 5–6PM. Need a workout with more impact? Join INSANITY instructor Lauren Baumgarten Mondays and Wednesdays 5–6PM. HEALTH AND WELLNESS UPDATE-What’s

WOMEN SELF DEFENSE CLASSES

Feel empowered! Are you able to defend yourself when physically threatened? Beginning Monday, November 9, join us for Women’s Self Defense classes 6–7PM at the CJCE. Come learn how to react and escape from different situations, such as grabs, chokes, and more. Cost $5 per person.

Instructors Casey Owens and Ehud Borovoy.

Friday, November 20 › JCC Book Club 10:30AM–NOON @ Temple Israel (130 Riverside Dr, 45405) Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay; Hostess: Ellen Lauber 432-0970.

NEW WELLNESS CLASS › WOMEN’S SELF DEFENSE Mondays 6–7PM November 9–December 21 Instructors Casey Owens & Ehud Borovoy.

Cost: $5 per class CABF EVENTS Sunday, November 1 › Mahj Maven Karen Gooen 12:30PM @ Boonshoft CJCE RSVP required for lunch. $20 in advance / $28 at the door.

Thursday, November 5 › Reporter Bill Rabinowitz 7PM @ Boonshoft CJCE $5 in advance/ $8 at the door.

Wednesday, November 11 › Comedienne Linda Belt 7:30PM @ Crowne Plaza Dayton (33 E. 5th St, 45402) $10 in advance / $15 at the door.

Sunday, November 15 › Brian Forschner 2 & 4PM Meet @ Warped Wing (26 Wyandot St, 45402) $20 in advance, RSVP by Nov 6. » SEE PAGE 20 FOR MORE CABF EVENTS AND DETAILS! RSVPs are due at least 1 week before event. Events with no price listed are free.

PLEASE CONTACT KAREN STEIGER REGARDING ALL EVENTS UNLESS NOTED: 610-1555, ksteiger@jfgd.net

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Join us on Monday, November 9, for a cooking class with Chef Jenn DiSanto, owner of Fresco.

3141 Far Hills Ave., Kettering 6–8:30PM Cost: $40/person

ABOVE: Charles Putman (L) and James

Anthony (R) put their own “spin” on round challahs for Rosh Hashanah.

Early Childhood students worked in the CJCE kitchen with Rochel Simon, Judaics specialist, to make challahs to take home for their families to enjoy.

Participants will make a delicious vegetarian or dairy meal from scratch. » Limited space available, RSVP by November 2nd.

» IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN EXPLORING OUR CENTER FOR YOUR CHILD, please contact Audrey L. MacKenzie, Early Childhood Director at amackenzie@jfgd.net or 853-0373.

CABF ARTIST ON DISPLAY: Steve

Markman

During the month of November-December, the CJCE will display Steve Markman’s collection of hand-made sailing ship models. Markman built each model, and each required as many as 650 hours. The six models represent over thirty years of work, which Markman started during the early 1980s. In 1997, Markman’s model of the Wasa, the famous Swedish warship that sank in 1628, was displayed alongside the actual ship at the Wasa Museum in Stockholm.

Markman has resided in the Dayton area since 1972. He was an aerospace engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB for thirty-two years and retired in 2004. He also is known as a writer, woodworker, antique car enthusiast, martial arts instructor, and commander of the Dayton post of Jewish War Veterans.Sam Lauber’s artwork will be on display at the JCC until December 18.

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L’Chaim 2015!

The Arts Come Alive in Dayton Jewish Family Services, in collaboration with the Jewish Community Center’s 2015 Cultural Arts & Book Festival, is proud to present L’Chaim 2015! The Arts Come Alive in Dayton. See page 21 for details about this exciting event!

5776 is Off to a Sweet Start! Members of our community enjoyed sweet treats and the sounds of Rosh Hashanah at One Lincoln Park (9/10/15) and at Friendship Village (9/17/2015).

Thank you Cantor Andrea Raizen from Beth Abraham for leading us in song and Marshall Weiss (ABOVE) and Joe Litvin (LEFT) for blowing the shofar. PHOTO CREDIT: TARA FEINER

Active Adults Chanukah Brunch

Join your friends in celebrating Chanukah at the JFS Active Adult Chanukah Brunch. This lively event will take place at Temple Israel on Thursday, December 10 at 10:30AM. The morning will feature a delicious brunch catered by Bernstein’s Fine Catering and musical entertainment with Mary Wyke. Co–Sponsors of this wonderful event are the Lynda A. Cohen Yiddish Club, The Jewish War Vets and Hadassah.

On September 1, 2015, Lee Sherman, Executive RSVP by December 4 to Karen Steiger, 610-1555. The cost Director, and Lisa Budlow, Chief Program Officer, from of the event is $10 in advance /$15 at the door. (Reservathe Association of Jewish Family & Children Agencies tions are very important!) Your check is your reservation.

Strategic Plan Update

(AJFCA) arrived in Dayton. Lee and Lisa facilitated conversations with the JFS Board, Tara Feiner, JFS Director; Cathy Gardner, JFGD CEO; and Judy Abromowitz, JFGD President; to help them digest the data from the surveys and informational interviews.

With Lee and Lisa’s assistance, the JFS Board listed priorities for services and addressed capacity and funding issues. On Tuesday, September 2, Lee and Lisa met with the JFS Strategic Task Force (Wendi Pavlofsky, JFS Chair, JFS Board Members Maryann Bernstein and Helene Gordon, Tara Feiner, Cathy Gardner and Judy Abromowitz). This group distilled the data from the day prior and created a draft strategic plan grounded in four strategies. JFS is now working to revise the document, identifying items that are immediately actionable and those items that are new initiatives that will require further research and planning before implementation.

Once the JFS Board reviews and finalizes the JFS Strategic Plan, we look forward to sharing it with you.

We are excited to grow JFS, building on current programs and services to make our community stronger!

The members of the JFS Board did an incredible job and we are grateful for their incredible time, energy, and thought-full conversation. Also, thank you Lee Sherman and Lisa Budlow from AJFCA for their energy, insight and guidance.

IT’S ANNUAL MEDICARE ENROLLMENT TIME:

OCTOBER 15–DECEMBER 7, 2015 Two “Medicare Check Up” days are left here in Montgomery County. Medicare counselors from the Ohio Department of Insurance will be on hand to work with people individually to determine their needs and select a plan. This is a free service offered by Medicare and OSHIIP, the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program.

Please refer to the Sidebar for information about dates, times, locations, and how to schedule an appointment.

Please bring a list of current prescription drugs with you to your appointment.

BEREAVEMENT SEMINAR

Talking about GRIEF JFS’s fall Bereavement Seminar has begun. There are three remaining sessions. The three remaining sessions at Graeter’s Ice Cream in Oakwood (2412 Far Hills Ave, 45419) are on Thursdays: November 5, 3–4PM November 19, 3–4PM December 3, 3–4PM There is no charge for the group.

Please call Tara Feiner at 610-1555 to reserve your place.

Jewish Family Services Jewish Foundation ofof GREATER DAYTON GREATER DAYTON Thursday, November 12 › Active Adults Dine Around NOON @ Ray’s Wine Spirits Grill (8268 N Main Street, 45415) Please RSVP by Nov 10.

Tuesday December 1 › L’Chaim 2015: The Arts Come Alive in Dayton 1:30–4:30PM @ Boonshoft CJCE In partnership with the CABF 1:30PM – 3:15PM Exhibitors: Local Arts Organizations 3:30PM – 4:30PM Speaker, Eddie Shapiro Thursday, December 10 › Chanukah Party & Brunch 10:30AM @ Temple Israel (130 Riverside Drive, 45405) In partnership with the Yiddish Club, Jewish War Veterans, and Hadassah MEDICARE CHECK UP DAYS: › Friday, November 6 9AM–3PM @ Earl Heck Center (201 N. Main Street, 45322) Call 836-5929 to schedule an appointment.

› Tuesday, November 17 10AM–3PM @ Recreation West Enrichment Center (965 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd) Call 433-0130 to schedule an appointment. › Need Assistance Finding a Food Pantry Near You? Call the United Way Information & Referral Line, 225-3000 or Dial 2-1-1. › Are you caring for a loved one who is not in the Greater Dayton area?

Visit http://www.ajfca.org/ senior-resource-connect/ to find supports and services provided by Jewish agencies nationwide.

PLEASE CONTACT KAREN STEIGER REGARDING ALL ACTIVE ADULT EVENTS: 610-1555

JEWISH FEDERATION of GREATER DAYTON AGENCY NEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2015

Jewish Foundation of GREATER DAYTON

Legacies, Tributes, & Memorials FEDERATION

Do you want to make end-of-year donations to your favorite 501c3 organizations, but can’t seem to find the time? Use your Philanthropic Fund! Send an email request to Alisa Thomas at athomas@jfgd.net, and we will take care of the rest.

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UNITED JEWISH CAMPAIGN IN MEMORY OF › Alan Rinzler › Brother of Joan Holzinger › Deborah Klass Judy and Dr. Mel Lipton JCC

DOROTHY B. MOYER YOUNG LEADERSHIP FUND IN MEMORY OF › Harriett Moscowitz Marcia and Dick Moyer FAMILY SERVICES

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES IN HONOR OF › Special Birthday of Jerry Kantor Marilyn Scher Andi Rabiner FOUNDATION

JEREMY BETTMAN B’NAI TZEDEK FUND IN HONOR OF › Wedding of Natalie Carne Jean and Todd Bettman

We will begin accepting applications for the following grants and scholarships on December 7, 2015: » Jewish Residential Camp Scholarships Available to local youths planning to attend a Jewish residential camp program in the summer of 2016. Funding made possible through the Joan and Peter Wells Summer Camp Scholarship Fund and by a generous donation from Carole and Bernie Rabinowitz. » Jewish Travel to Israel Scholarships Available to Dayton area teens and young adults, ages 14-21, who plan to travel to Israel during the summer of 2016. Funding made possible through the Wolfe Marcus Trust Youth Travel to Israel Scholarship Fund. » Jewish Foundation College Scholarships Available to Jewish undergraduate and graduate students for the 2016/2017 academic year. Funding made possible through the Heuman Scholarship Fund. » Jewish Foundation Interest Free Student Loans Available to Jewish undergraduate and graduate students for the 2016/2017 academic year. Funding made possible through the Cantor Student Loan Fund and the Lillian E. Finn Student Loan Fund.

Look for more detailed information in the December issue.

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A little bit of Yiddish to share with friends, courtesy of the JFS Yiddish Club, in memory of Lynda A. Cohen.

Shraybn: \SHRAYB-en\ Verb To write Expression with shraybn: › Es shteyt dokh geshribn: khokhme - shtike It is written: silence is wisdom. The source for this expression is the Mishnah in ‘Avot 3:13 which quotes Rabbi Akiva’ as saying that “seyag le-hokhmah shetikah” - silence preserves wisdom. › Az men ken nisht shraybn, zogt men az di pen iz shlekht. If one cannot write, one says that the pen is bad (i.e. at fault). › A goldene pen iz nisht keyn farzikherung oyf sheyn shraybn. [Using] a golden pen does not ensure beautiful writing.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Classes

JCC Book Club: Fri., Nov. 20, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay.

Hosted by Ellen Lauber at Temple Israel, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. R.S.V.P. to Ellen, 432-0970.

Temple Beth Or Classes: Sun., Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, 1 p.m.: Adult Hebrew w. Rabbi Chessin. Wed., Nov. 4, 6-9:30 p.m.: Israeli Folk Dancing w.

Janifer Tsou. Wed., Nov. 4, 7 p.m.: Men’s Circle. Wed., Nov. 4, 7-8:30 p.m.: Intermediate Hebrew w. Ehud Borovoy.

Thurs., Nov. 5, 6-7:30 p.m.: Beginners’ Adult Hebrew w.

Ehud Borovoy. Sun., Nov. 8 & 22, 10:30 a.m.: Tanakh Study w. Rabbi Chessin. Thurs., Nov. 12, 1 p.m.: Socrates Café. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 4353400.

Temple Israel Classes: Sundays, 9 a.m.: Tanakh Study w. Rabbi Bogosian.

Sundays, noon: Exploring Reform Responsa w. Rabbi Bodney-Halasz. Mondays, noon: Advanced Biblical Hebrew w. Rabbi BodneyHalasz. Tuesdays, 5 p.m.: Beginner Hebrew w. Judy Heller. Wednesdays, 10 a.m.: Coffee & Commentary, Dorothy Lane Mkt., 6177 Far Hills Ave., Wash. Twp. Wednesdays, noon: Talmud Study w. Rabbi Bogosian. Wednesdays, 5 p.m.: Intermediate Prayerbook Hebrew w. Judy Heller.

Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.: Weekly Torah Portion w. Rabbi Bogosian. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 496-0050.

Discussions

Beth Abraham Men’s Club Brunches: Sundays, 10 a.m. $5. Nov. 1: Garry Greene, Raymond James, Investment Concepts. Nov. 15: Veterans brunch w. Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Paul Cooper, Raid on Entebbe.

Nov. 22: Retired Prof. Richard Saphire, UD Law School. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood.

293-9520.

JFS Bereavement Seminars: Thurs., Nov. 5, 19 & Dec. 3, 3-4 p.m. Graeter’s, 2412 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. R.S.V.P. to Tara Feiner, 610-1555.

Temple Israel Ryterband Brunch Series: Sundays, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Nov. 1: Dr. Fred Krome, UC, Israel Zangwill. Nov. 8: Dr. Richard Sarason, HUC, Experiential Meaning of Passover Seder.

Nov. 15: Dr. David Barr, WSU, Jesus’ Reflections in Judaism, Christianity & Islam.

Nov. 22: Temple Israel Interim Rabbi Ilene Bogosian, Jewish Tradition, Transition and Transformation. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 496-0050.

Children

JCC Children’s Theatre Auditions for Seussical Jr.: Wed., Nov. 4, 6-8 p.m. and Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30-6:30 p.m. 400 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. Call Mary Wyke, 610-1795.

Family

Kids Make Shabbat at Chabad: Thurs., Nov. 12, 5 p.m., Kids prepare dinner. Fri., Nov. 13, 5:15 p.m., Shabbat dinner. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. 643-0770.

PJ Library & Hillel Academy Present Heroes Among Us: Sun., Nov. 22, 2:30 p.m. At Hillel, 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. 277-8966.

Women

JCC Women’s Self Defense: Mondays, Nov. 9-Dec. 21, 6-7 p.m. W. Casey Owens & Ehud Borovoy. 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. $5. 610-1555.

Chabad Women’s Circle Art & Soul - Live Creatively: Sun., Nov. 15, 10 a.m. Painting & Drawing. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. 643-0770.

Chabad Women’s Circle Pre-Chanukah Paintbrush Party & Dinner: Sun., Nov. 29, 5:30-8 p.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. 643-0770.

Seniors

JFS Active Adults Dine Around: Thurs., Nov. 12, noon. Ray’s Wine Spirits Grill, 8268 N. Main St., Clayton. Pay your own way. R.S.V.P. by Nov. 10, 610-1555.

JCC Cultural Arts & Book Fest

For complete schedule, see Page 20.

Performances

The Diary of Anne Frank: Nov. 6-15, Fridays & Saturdays, 8 p.m. Sundays, 2 p.m.

Dayton Playhouse, 1301 Siebenthaler Ave. 424-8477, daytonplayhouse.com.

Community Events

37th Annual Ryterband Symposium: w. Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt Divinity School. Wed., Nov. 4, 3:30 p.m.: The Bible & Israel/ Palestine. 7:30 p.m.: Hearing Jesus’ Parables through FirstCentury Jewish Ears. United Theological Seminary, 4501 Denlinger Rd., Trotwood. For info., call Dr. Mark Verman at Wright State, 775-2461.

JWV Shabbat at Beth Jacob: Sat., Nov. 7, 9:30 a.m. 7020 N. Main St., Harrison Twp. 2742149.

Beth Abraham Kovod Society Luncheon: Sun., Nov. 8, noon. $60. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. 293-9520.

University of Dayton Kristallnacht Observance: Mon., Nov. 9, 5 p.m.

Immaculate Conception Chapel.

229-3339.

JCC Cooking w. Chef Jenn DiSanto: Mon., Nov. 9, 6-8:30 p.m. Fresco, 3141 Far Hills Ave., Kettering. $40. R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

Wright State University Kristallnacht Commemoration: Tues., Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m. Rm. E163, Student Union. Call Dr. Mark Verman for info., 775-2461.

Beth Abraham Veterans Brunch: Sun., Nov. 15, 10 a.m. W. Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Paul Cooper, Raid on Entebbe. Free for veterans, $5 all others. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood.

293-9520.

Temple Beth Or Chanukah Bazaar: Sun., Nov. 15, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and Wed., Nov. 18, 4:30-6:30 p.m. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 4353400.

28th Interfaith Thanksgiving Service: Mon., Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m. Temple Beth Or, 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 4353400.

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KVELLING CORNER Lazer Mangel, who made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) in February 2013, serves as a digital media manager on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) International New Media Team.

The unit has two primary responsibilities: in wartime, to be a constant source of official and factual information; and in peacetime, to write blog posts and articles for the official IDF

Rachel Haug Gilbert Paintings by the late Brian Appel on display at K12 Gallery and TEJAS

blog. “My unit’s responsibility is to be the voice of the IDF on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, our blog, and other web platforms,” Lazer says. He is the son of Devorah Leah and Rabbi Nochum Mangel.

when he began medical school at the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine.

David Klass received Wright State University College of Liberal Arts’ Outstanding Alumni Award. A homebuilding developer, David is a past president of the Home Builders Association of Dayton.

Rachel Bloom applied and was selected to be fall analyst for the Buckeye Capital Investors club through The Fisher School of Business at The Ohio State University. Rachel’s parents are Julie and Dr. Rob Bloom.

Their son, Jeffrey Bloom, recently received his white coat

Dr. Michael Halasz was elected vice president of the Ohio Dental Association at its 149th Annual Session in Columbus.

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He was also elected to serve as vice chairman of the Council on Ethics, Bylaws and Judicial Affairs for the American Dental Association, and will become chairman of that committee in November 2016.

Dr. Heath Gilbert was awarded the Warren G. and Ruth P. Morris Optometrist of the Year Award by the Ohio Optometric Association at its President’s Night banquet in Cleveland.

Heath’s father, Dr. Ron Gilbert, is a past recipient of the award.

Among the honorees for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Greater Dayton Region Chapter’s 26th Annual National Philanthropy Day Awards Luncheon will be Lisa Hanauer and Susan Spiegel,

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nominated by AIDS Resource Center Ohio as outstanding philanthropists; and Miami Valley School ninth-grader Max Mader, nominated by The Levin Family Foundation as outstanding youth in philanthropy, ages 5 to 17. Max is the son of Jenifer and Joe Mader. The luncheon will be held on Nov. 10 at Sinclair’s Ponitz Center.

TEJAS held the opening reception for The Brian Appel Memorial Show on Oct. 25.

John Gaglione received The Miami Valley School Headmaster’s Award at its Distinguished Alumni Dinner Award Ceremony on Sept. 26.

John began volunteering at MVS 18 years ago when he and wife Dr. Elaine Gaglione’s children, Sarah and Claire, were in the lower grades. Since then, John has helped create the school’s recording studio, with eighthgraders built a wood-fired oven for the Zoringer Environmental Lab, advises middle school students’ human ecology projects, takes photographs during events, and leads the lighting, sound and stage crews for the school’s performing arts presentations.

Send your Kvelling items to kvellingcorner@gmail.com or to Rachel Haug Gilbert, The Dayton Jewish Observer, 525 Versailles Drive, Centerville, OH 45459.

Beth Abraham Synagogue will honor congregants Matt Arnovitz, Penney Fraim, Marlene Pinsky, and Ralph Williams for their years of dedicated service, at its Kovod Society Luncheon on Nov. 8.

Goldenberg-Doner Melinda and Bill Doner are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Craig, to Jenifer Goldenberg, daughter of Susan and Barry Goldenberg of Marlboro, N.J. Craig received his bachelor’s degree in finance and master’s degree in information systems (MSIS) from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and is an IT consultant with Ernst & Young.

Jen received her bachelor’s degree in English, with a concentration in journalism, from the University of Delaware, and is a marketing manager at DuJour magazine.

They met during their junior year while studying abroad in Italy, in 2009. Sharing in their happiness are their grandparents, Renate Frydman and the late Charles Frydman, and Sharon and Jay Doner of Indianapolis. The wedding will take place Feb. 20 in New York.

The couple currently resides in Manhattan.

K12 Gallery and TEJAS are now presenting hundreds of works by late artist Brian Appel in their gallery. The works, created over Brian’s lifetime, were donated to K12 Gallery and TEJAS by his sister, Renate Frydman, to provide inspiration for artists of all ages. K12 and

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Living with the times: the hakhel year

By Rabbi Nochum Mangel Director, Chabad of Greater Dayton As many in the media have noted, the bruising fight over the Iran deal revealed a deep split among American Jews.

For many decades, the overwhelming majority of American Jews were united in their support of Israel, no matter what their politics.

But in this last summer’s controversy, there was no such consensus. Support of Israel’s stance was no longer a given; there were sharp and angry words and jarred emotions.

Some of this ugliness was predictable. But with antisemi-

Perspectives tism on a vicious world-wide rebound, with the Middle East in chaos, with a militant Iran vastly expanding its power and influence and reiterating publicly its “Death to Israel” mantra, American Jews cannot afford the indulgence of a bitter, rancorous split.

But where can we find some principle, some idea that will reunite us? Clearly, such an idea is not coming from politics. The political rancor in America seems to notch ever upward.

Where is there consensus? It seems that there is no issue too small to serve as a wedge that one side hopes will split off enough people from the other group to their own; and so to gain them an advantage.

Where can we find inspiration for community unity?

By keeping up with the times.

Near the end of the last of the Five Books of Moses, we read of an event that took place

every seven years, including draw the line, and if there is this year that we have just not enough of an underlying begun. affection for the bonds of comJust after the end of the munity, the ones who lose out Sabbatical year, during the in the lawmaking will revolt or holiday of Sukkot, the people bolt. were commanded Therefore, the Toto gather — men, rah itself instructs us women, and children that the Torah was — in the Temple to not given until we hear the king read to had come to a place them from the Torah. of oneness with The word that each other, where means “gather we knew ourselves together as one,” to be bound to each hakhel, gives its name other completely. to the entire year.

The text in There is a message Exodus describes in this mitzvah. After Rabbi Nochum Mangel the lead-up to the all, there is already giving of the Torah. in the Torah a mitzvah to be When Israel arrived at Mt. educated.

Sinai, where the revelation We have individual responwould shortly take place, the sibility to learn what we need text reads: to be a good citizen in God’s They traveled from Refidim universe. and came to the Wilderness The mitzvah of gathering to- of Sinai and encamped in the gether, then, was not to impart wilderness; Israel encamped information or laws that we opposite the mountain (Exodus didn’t already have.

19:2).

The mitzvah was purely The point of about the need for us to come the text reveals together as one, in a holy place, itself in the as we begin a new cycle in original Hebrew, time. in which not We would reinforce the only nouns but bonds of affection and connecverbs in all their tion to our community, to our tenses indicate God and to our tasks which whether their underlie every teaching and subject is singular or plural. every law.

At the beginning of the senWe would go home with the tence, the grammar is all in the vivid memories of being part of plural, what you would expect a whole people. for a group of (very many) The bond of togetherness people. is a precondition for a lasting But at the very end of the nation. sentence, the verb changes Laws, by definition, come from the plural to the singular, at points of conflict. We do not even though still speaking of need to make a law to be sure the same group. to breathe regularly. Therefore, The classic midrash (rabbinic there are always disagreecommentary from the Talmud) ments about where exactly to on Exodus, the Mechilta, draws

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out the significance of this change: They were like one person, with one heart.

As later scholars draw out, this text teaches that Torah requires unity before it even begins. Not uniformity — our tradition is famous for proclaiming that both sides of a long-fought dispute can be “words of the living God” and that disagreement can be positive if undertaken for the sake of heaven. Not uniformity, but unity.

Our Torah challenges us to be able to set aside egotism, to learn how to disagree without divisiveness. It teaches us how to learn from every member of the community and find the unifying perspective in which all voices can be listened to.

This does not mean that all opinions are equally and indiscriminately accepted. It is just that we do not use our disagreements in order to wedge people apart and so make a selfish, partisan and short-lived gain while being heedless of what this does to the health of the whole community.

We accept upon ourselves the burden of making sense to others of our thoughts, on the basis of that which we share all as one: the gift of the Torah.

Let us align ourselves with the message of this Hakhel year, and strive always to first be at one with our fellow Jews — and our fellow citizens of this world — and only then, in the spirit of unity, seek solutions together to our great challenges.

The bond of togetherness is a precondition for a lasting nation.

November • Cheshvan/Kislev Shabbat Candle Lightings November 6 5:11 p.m.

November 13 5:05 p.m.

Torah Portions November 7/25 Cheshvan Chayei Sarah (Gen. 23:1-25:18) November 14/2 Kislev Toledot (Gen. 25:19-28:9)

November 20 5 p.m.

November 21/9 Kislev Vayetze (Gen. 28:10-32:3)

November 27 4:56 p.m.

November 28/16 Kislev Vayishlach (Gen. 32:4-36:43)

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JEWISH FAMILY EDUCATION

Bones to butterflies Jew in the Christian World “Toe bone connected to the foot bone, foot bone connected to the heel bone...” Inspired by the prophet Ezekiel’s visit to the Valley of Dry Bones (Ezek.

37), the lyrics of this spiritual offer a lively invitation to explore eschatology: the theology of the end times.

This futuristic era first appears in Genesis (49:1): “And

Candace R. Kwiatek Jacob called unto his sons, and said: ‘Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the end of days.’”

The prophets established the main tenets of Jewish eschatology that were further developed by the rabbis of the Talmud.

While there is no unanimity about the specific events, traditional Judaism generally describes a sequential, non-cataclysmic process: a messianic herald, the coming of the Messiah, resurrection of the dead, final judgment, and the world to come.

Elijah. In the closing verses of Malachi (3:23), Elijah is characterized as the herald of the Messiah: “Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the Lord.”

Our sages wondered: Would Elijah announce the imminent arrival or reveal the Messiah’s actual presence? Would Elijah engage in peacemaking during the last days — a time of social turmoil, economic disaster, despotic governments, and Israel’s final war with its enemies, the metaphorical Gog and Magog, in preparation for the Messiah’s arrival — or simply highlight the Messiah’s actions as a peacemaker?

Messiah. Unlike the divine deliverer or sacrificial savior of Christianity, the Jewish Messiah, literally anointed one, is a human being. A charismatic leader and living example of Jewish teachings, the Messiah will redeem the people Israel and bring about the perfection of the world in an era known as the Messianic Age. According to our sages, he

will come either when he is most needed (an overwhelmingly evil world) or when he is most deserved (an exceptionally good world).

Resurrection. The only Jewish end-of-times doctrine has been physical resurrection of the dead. With biblical roots in Ezekiel, resurrection attests to God’s promise that the Jewish people will literally come to life again. It also reinforces the notion of God’s ultimate justice, enabling all the righteous throughout history, not just those alive at the time of redemption, to share in the world to come. It also reflects the Jewish understanding that the body and soul work in tandem: alone, neither can sin nor be righteous.

Judgment. The Book of Daniel (12:2) describes judgment following resurrection: “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.”

Many of our sages pondered the time between death and judgment. Shammai determined that the dead remain inactive in the grave or a “pit” until resurrection, a view echoed centuries later by Saadiah Gaon.

Hillel argued that souls are immediately punished or rewarded after death, then resurrected for a final judgment at the end of times.

Ultimately, all the righteous are rewarded in Paradise, a place of bliss and spiritual perfection; the wicked are temporarily punished in Gehinnom, variously described as a place for soul-searching and remorse or a fiery punishment pit; and the truly evil are either permanently incarcerated there or destroyed.

Olam haba. Not to be confused with the Messianic Age, olam haba (the world to come)

is the eternal spiritual afterlife and the completion of Creation.

Christian eschatology is not so straightforward. Despite shared roots in both Jewish and Christian biblical texts, Christian denominational views differ significantly. Here’s a brief summary of key concepts, with no sectarian distinctions. Jesus as Messiah ushered in an era of Christian believers known as the Church Age. It will come to an end with the Rapture, when all believers living and dead are physically resurrected to Heaven with the Second Coming of Jesus as Messiah.

Seven years of Tribulation follow, an era of cataclysmic disasters during which a charismatic Antichrist (the Beast, the Devil/Satan), hailed as the world’s savior, tempts humans to destruction and rebellion against biblical values. During this time, a portion of the Jews who are restored to the Land of Israel turn to Jesus as Messiah, and all new believers are resurrected.

The Lord binds up the Antichrist in a bottomless pit during the great battle of Armageddon, followed by 1,000 years of peace and security under the rule of Jesus from Jerusalem. In the waning days of the world, Satan is released from his imprisonment, again deceives the nations of Gog and Magog (East and West), and attempts to destroy the believers and the city of God. In a final battle, the universe is destroyed and Satan is cast into a lake of fire along with all the wicked and non-believers. God creates new heavens and a new earth for eternity.

While Jewish and Christian teachings about the purpose and process of the end times are markedly different, their single point of agreement might be summed up by the following metaphor by author Richard Bach: What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Literature to share Noah’s Bark by Stephen Krensky. This fanciful picture book about how the animals got their unique voices is a clever preschooler’s version of the Noah story. Woven throughout the delightfully illustrated tale are the value of community and the significance of one’s own unique attributes. Rich with opportunities for interaction, it works equally well in groups and one on one.

After Abel and other stories by Michal Lemberger. While biblically grounded and historically accurate, Lemberger’s imaginative narratives offer rich and satisfying stories of nine unexpected and mostly unknown biblical women such as the wives of Lot and Haman. For those who love modern midrash and biblical storytelling, this book is a treasure.

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FOOD THE JEWISH INTERNET

Business ethics: You be the judge Last month, we looked at how modern ethical business questions can be solved using traditional Jewish principles.

Now it’s your turn to be the judge.

Mark Mietkiewicz Questions

1. A friend invited you as his guest to a fund-raising dinner.

A year later, you receive a bill because your erstwhile friend reneged on paying. Are you on the hook?

2. A nearby house is for sale.

You’d like to sell your similar house and want to know how much they’re asking. Can you pose as a potential buyer and ask?

3. A bachelor hires the services of a professional matchmaker. He goes out with a recommended woman but things don’t click. He does think she would be perfect for a friend of his. He’s right. Who gets the fee — the professional matchmaker or bachelor number one?

4. A bird lover set up feeding stations and resting places for

birds in his yard. The neighbors complain that the flocks of birds dirty their adjacent properties, make excessive noise, and ruin their gardens. Do they have legal recourse?

5. A woman runs a playgroup in her basement. One day, a child finds a pair of scissors and proceeds to cut holes in a friend’s shirt. Can the parents demand payment from the teacher?

6. You lent your neighbor money. He honestly does not have funds to repay you, but he has a house, a car, furniture and clothing. Is he obligated to sell personal assets to repay the loan?

7. You’ve applied for a job.

So has someone who is destitute. Should you back out and allow a needy person to take the job instead of you?

8. Someone pledges $300 to your charity but gives you a check for $360. Do you have to contact him to confirm he intended to do so?

9. You bought a printer that carries a manufacturer’s one-year warranty. When you plugged it in, it did not work at all. The store insists that you ship the printer to the manufacturer for replacement. Can you demand that the store exchange it?

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10. You’re thirsty. Can you help yourself to a very pricey hotel room beverage and replace it later with the same drink which you buy for less?

Here are the recommended answers. Go to the links for the complete responses and Jewish sources.

Keep in mind that like many things in halachah (Jewish law), it may be possible to find an argument to support a contrary view.

Answers

1. No. It is true that a beneficiary must pay for whatever benefit he receives even if it was not authorized. But in this case, there was an understanding between a diner and the organization that the diner was not going to pay for the meal.

Consequently, the organization may not charge him for his meal even though his “friend” was negligent in paying his commitments (bit.ly/jethics10).

2. No. It is prohibited by the Torah to ask someone who is interested in selling or leasing something how much he or she is charging for that item if the person asking has no interest in purchasing the item and is only interested in knowing the price for other reasons. A person who does ask in the manner stated above, transgresses the prohibition in Leviticus 25:17, that “A man may not oppress (by misleading) his friend.”

If you were to inform the merchant or salesman at the beginning of the conversation that you are only calling to price an item but have no intention to purchase it, it would be permitted (bit.ly/jethics11).

3. Bachelor number one. The matchmaker is permitted to stipulate to a client that if the information provided to the client results in any match at all, the matchmaker or agent will receive the entire fee. However, this must be made conditional before the information is provided (bit.ly/jethics12) 4. Yes. Beyond the responsibility not to do actual damage, a person is responsible not to do things on his property that will adversely impact his neighbors’ property in a direct manner.

This applies not only to monetary damage; the rabbis of the Talmud also instituted various neighborly rights relating to privacy, noise, smell, air, light and dampness.

with the other party since one may presume that it was given intentionally as a gift.

Nevertheless, when there are grounds to suspect that the Even if the person is willing other party may have made to pay should damage occur, a mistake, it is considered a he is not allowed to create the pious act to confirm that the potential damage (bit.ly/jethother party did not err (bit.ly/ ics13). jethics17).

5. No. Although a teacher 9. Yes. Although the seller should certainly make an efof your printer also bought the fort to protect her students’ printer in a closed box and had belongings, there is no way of knowing about the no indication that defect, he is still responsible she accepts the to sell working items to his cusliability of being a tomers. shomer (guardian) Thereupon herself.

Can you help fore, since Her primary yourself to a the printer focus is to teach very pricey did not the children and not to pay hotel room work at all and was such close beverage defective attention to their belongand replace from the the ings. Addiit later with start, sale is tionally, parthe same void and ents are aware of the likelidrink which the seller has to hood that the you buy for exchange it clothing their or refund children wear less? the money. to school may This would apply even if get ruined (bit. the seller would be unable to ly/jethics14). reclaim the money from his 6. Possibly. In principle, a supplier, such as if the supplier person is required to repay his loan even from personal assets. went out of business (bit.ly/ jethics18).

However, the Torah teaches 10. No. It is prohibited to that we allow the person to steal with the intent to repay retain a certain minimum the owner. Accordingly, since amount for his own support.

A person would be obligated the hotel intends to make money by selling beverages and to sell his house in order to has determined that guests will repay his loan, even if the loan be willing to pay the inflated is relatively small compared to amount due to the convenience the value of the house. Howof having cold drinks available ever, if he can rent the house, he might not be required to sell in their rooms, it is clear that it, but can repay from the rental they would not permit you to take a bottle to drink and income (bit.ly/jethics15).

7. It would be a nice gesture, replace it with another one, since that prevents them from but no. The Talmud says it is making their intended profit. praiseworthy to give someone Interestingly, the action who is poor precedence in seems to be permissible if the obtaining a benefit.

“A poor person who is seek- thirsty patron is unaware of the halachic principles involved ing after a piece of bread and (bit.ly/jethics19). someone else comes along and takes it,…that person is considered wicked (Kiddushin 59a).”

So, how did you do?

However, you usually can’t 0-3 Correct: Don’t quit your be certain that person will get day job. the job if you pull out. The bottom line: you are under no 4-6 Correct: You understand a ethical obligation to drop your bissel about Jewish ethics. candidacy on behalf of someone who seems more needy.

7-8 Correct: Here comes the But it would be a thoughtful judge. act if it seems likely the job would go to them (bit.ly/jeth9-10 Correct: You’re a modernics16). day Solomon!

8. No. In monetary cases, the obligation is on the owner of Mark Mietkiewicz writes about the money to exercise caution. resources for Jewish life to be Consequently, the recipient found on the Internet. Contact has no obligation to confirm him at highway@rogers.com.

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OBITUARIES Helen Abramovitz, age 88 of Dayton, passed away Oct. 20 at Cypress Pointe. Mrs. Abramovitz was retired from Good Samaritan Hospital as a counselor, a member of Beth Abraham Synagogue, a board member of Jewish Family Services, a member of the Citizen Review Board for Montgomery County Juvenile Court, a group leader at Oak Tree Corner, and a volunteer with DECA. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles in 2009. Mrs. Abramovitz is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Debra Stouffer and Edwin Kautto of L’Anse, Mich., Beth Zuriel and Yitzchak of Israel, and Sara Abramovitz and Larry Sternberg of Sudbury, Mass.; grandchildren, Benjy and Efrat, Shira and Avidan, Rina and Nadav, Ephraim & Emma, Amitai, Ryan and Lori, Ariel, Josh, and Yoni; great-grandchildren, Evyatar, Shilo, Haggai, Uria, Nehora, Bina, Teena, Nigun, Yosef David, Shmuel, Yehuda, Alma, and Zev; niece, Maralyn Tabatsky (Ken Schwer); nephew, David Tabatsky; and other relatives and friends. Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Beth Abraham Synagogue or the charity of your choice in Mrs. Abramovitz’s memory.

Rosalind Karen Badiner (nee Shapiro) age 67 of Englewood, passed away after a long illness surrounded by her loving family and friends on Oct. 8. Mrs. Badiner was a former Dayton public school teacher at several elementary schools. A graduate of Colonel White High School’s class of 1966, she received both her baccalaureate and master’s degrees in education at Wright State University. Nobody was ever a stranger to her and she loved to open her home up to others and make them feel welcome. She was also an avid mah-jongg and card player, a member of the Dayton Chapter of Hadassah, and active in the Englewood Senior Citizens group. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred Isadore Badiner, and parents, Paul Shapiro and Elaine Meltzer Shapiro of Dayton. Mrs. Badiner is survived by her brother, Stuart Shapiro, of

Dayton; sister, Marilyn ShapiroLowell, of Pound Ridge, N.Y.; and her dog, Maggie; as well as several aunts, cousins and many close friends. Interment was at Beth Jacob Cemetery. Donations can be made to the Propolis Project of the Levin Family Foundation, 7812 McEwen Rd., Suite 100, Dayton 45459. The project works to save and create habitat for bees and butterflies in Montgomery County.

Lawrence Eugene Briskin, 86, passed away Oct. 14. He was born in Youngstown to Joseph and Bessie Briskin in 1929. Mr. Briskin attended The Rayen School, and earned degrees from The Ohio State University, Youngstown State University and Case Western Reserve. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Korean War. In 1958, he married Mona Ann Lazar, who predeceased him. Mr. Briskin was retired from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where he served as a logistician. He was a longstanding member of Beth Abraham Synagogue and a past president of the Jewish War Veterans. Mr. Briskin was passionate about his family and many topics including economics and politics. He leaves behind his loving wife of 40 years, Dena Sureck Briskin, along with his children Jeanne (Daniel Dinsmoor), Jacqueline (Kenneth Pinkus), Alex (Jane), Lisa Jacobs (Larry) and Richard Comerchero; grandchildren Benjamin, Daniel and Emily Briskin, Austin and Olivia Jacobs, Ari, Gabriel, Joseph and Lily Dinsmoor, and Olivia Mona Pinkus, as well as several nieces, a nephew and cousins. He was also predeceased by his sister, Leatrice Phillips. Please consider donations to Beth Abraham Synagogue, Jewish War Veterans, Hadassah or the charity of your choice.

Debora E. “Debbie” Horn, age 98, originally of Chicago, passed away peacefully on Sept. 28. She was the widow of Roy H. Horn, a prominent Dayton attorney to whom she was married for 54 wonderful years. She taught music for many years and sang in the choir (when Dorothy Herbst played the organ and Paul Katz

was the conductor) at Temple Israel, was active in Hadassah and a past president of the Council of Jewish Women. After many years of community service, she devoted herself to family care and was an enthusiastic swimmer, tennis player and golfer at Meadowbrook Country Club. She enjoyed art classes with Rosanne Schwartz and created a number of pictures, sculptures and wall art, which the family will always treasure.

She also enjoyed participating in the Jewish Federation Book Club, led by Ruthe Meadow, where she was an enthusiastic participant, and she loved music, mostly Broadway and classical.

She was known for her extensive knowledge of song lyrics. In later years she received excellent health care from Dr. Abdul Butman, in-home care from the caregivers at Cura Care Corp. of Mason, especially Melissa Wilson, and nurses at Gem City Home Care, especially Kelly Hoke. Survivors include son, Ralph Horn, and wife, Deborah, of Dayton; daughter, Charlene Posner, and husband, Richard, of Chicago; grandsons, Kenneth Posner, and wife, Susan Eby, of New York, Eric Posner, and wife, Emlyn Eisenach, of Chicago, Brandon Horn, and wife, Wendy Yu, of Los Angeles, and Benjamin Horn, and wife, Lisa, of Bexley; granddaughter, Alyssa Whittemore; and greatgrandchildren, Emeline and Philip Posner, Nathanial and Jacob Posner, Dylan and Brayden Horn and Pema and Amitai Yu. Mrs. Horn was a woman who always had a song in her heart, a love of her family and a thirst for knowledge, and she will be greatly missed. Please consider a contribution to The Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; Hospice Of Dayton Foundation, or

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Daniel Schild, age 89 of Kettering, passed away Oct. 20.

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By Pam Ferris-Olson with only a handgun and a Special To The Observer Sometimes history reads like simple plan.

Rabin had become cona suspense novel; that’s exactly troversial as a result of his how to describe Dan Ephron’s efforts with PLO Chairman new book, Killing a King: The Yasser Arafat and Israel AssassinaForeign Minister Shimon tion of Peres to produce the Oslo Yitzhak Accords, agreements Rabin and designed to broker land the Refor peace between the making of Palestinians and Israel.

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The three men received It is because Ephron served the Nobel Peace Prize in as the Jerusalem bureau chief 1994 for their work on the for Newsweek and the Daily accords.

Beast and lived in Israel on and Amir saw the accords as off for nearly two decades that an unforgiveable betrayal. he has the necessary under“The story of the assasstanding to provide a riveting sination is rich in human account of the two years leaddrama,” Ephron says. He ing up to as well as the assassees parallels between the sination of Israel’s past prime assassinations minister. of Rabin and U.S. In addition to his President Abraham firsthand experiLincoln. ence — he was at the In terms of the square when Rabin current climate in made his fateful the Middle East speech — Ephron Ephron believes reviewed hours of that “the assassinatapes produced in tion was so pivotal, the interrogation anyone interested in of the assassin, and Israel then and now, worked with Rabin’s Dan Ephron in understanding the daughter, Dalia, to solve a previously unanswered Israeli-Arab conflict, will get something from the book.” conspiracy question.

The reason Ephron chose to Ephron will talk about Killwrite Killing a King 20 years ing A King on Dec. 1 as part of the JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book after the assassination is that he believes the event remains the Fest. single most consequential one He says he set out to write in Israel’s recent history. a murder story about Yigal The murder of Rabin led to a Amir, a radical 25-five-year-old dramatic shift in Israeli poliJewish college student, who

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cies. Although Rabin had a 27year career as a soldier, serving among other roles as chief of operations during Israel’s War of Independence and, in 1964, as chief of the general staff overseeing Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, he was a pragmatist.

Ephron describes Israel’s current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu — who was first elected prime minister in 1996 and served three years — as the opposite of Rabin, with “a deep reluctance to make territorial concessions to the Palestinians.”

“The book is not a counterfactual history. It’s impossible to know what would have happened. In some ways, the most exasperating thing about the murder is that we’ll never know how close Rabin would have come to forging peace with the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world.”

Ephron takes on the role of modern-day forensic detective when he transports Rabin’s blood-spattered dress shirt and undershirt, worn the night of the assassination, from Israel to Arizona so a firearms specialist can examine holes in the garments.

In addition to the two bullet holes made by Amir’s handgun in the back of the shirt, there is The JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest will present author Dan Ephron on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville.

Tickets are $5 in advance, $8 at the door, and are available at jewishdayton.org, by calling 6101555, or at the Boonshoft CJCE.

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a round hole about the size of a dime in the front.

While many conspiracy theories surround Rabin’s assassination, Dalia Rabin has been intrigued by the hole in the front of her father’s shirt.

She wondered if the hole indicated a cover-up designed to hide a blunder made by the Israeli detail assigned to protect her father.

Ephron describes the various laboratory tests used to solve the mystery. Among them was firing a 9 mm Beretta loaded with Winchester hollow-point bullets — like the weapon and ammunition used by Rabin’s assassin — in order to compare the pattern with the unexplained holes.

Read the epilogue of Killing a King to discover the answer.

In terms of political Yitzhak Rabin mysteries, Ephron says he 1922-1995 Ephron sees is no expert in solving the parallels hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians.

He recognizes that the developments have bebetween the come complicated after Rabin’s death. His assessassassinations ment of the situation is that Israel is more secure now than it has been in decades because there is of Rabin and no functioning Syrian Army and Iraq is not curU.S. President rently a threat.

Additionally, the peace deals with Jordan and Abraham Lincoln. Egypt have held up despite the dramatic events that have occurred during the past five years.

Ephron does cite that from the Israeli security chiefs he’s “interviewed over the years — and you can see this in their public statements — the fact that Israel has not reached an accommodation with the Palestinians is itself a threat to Israel’s long-term security.”

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The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a peace rally in Tel Aviv on Nov. 4, 1995 coincided with day four of the Dayton Peace Accords. Hammering out the accords at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base were the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, their negotiating teams, and American negotiators including late Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, and Gen. Wesley Clark.

Those who organized the Dayton Jewish community’s memorial service for Rabin invited the negotiators. Along with a standing-room gathering at the Nov. 5 memorial service at Temple Israel were Clark, Croatia’s ambassador to the U.N. and military attache, Yugoslavia’s (Serbia’s) deputy foreign minister, and Sven Alkalhaj, Bosnia’s ambassador to the United States, a Jew from Sarajevo.

According to an article in the November 2005 Observer on the 10th anniversary of the accords, the negotiators arrived just before the service began and sat in front. Dayton’s Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim leaders took part on the program, and Clark related that Rabin had extended himself for peace — a statement likely directed toward the negotiators.

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Rizzoli & Isles author’s new Italian Holocaust mystery came to her through a dream

By Pam Ferris-Olson Special To The Observer New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen hadn’t planned to write a book about the Holocaust.

But one night in Venice, Italy, she had a nightmare.

In it, she played her violin with the unsettling consequence of transforming a baby into a glowing-eyed monster.

“I knew there was a story here,” she says. “I didn’t know anything beyond that little nugget of an idea.”

But as she walked around Venice later that day, she says the entire plot revealed itself to her. It crystallized when

she stood at Venice’s Ghetto Nuovo. There, she read a memorial plaque bearing the names of the more than 200 Jews of Venice who were deported to Nazi death camps in 1943-44.

On the day she visited, the square seemed pleasant and peaceful. It was difficult for her to believe that terrible events had once taken place there.

“You would think that frightening echoes remain in those walls, some trace of horror, but no. They’re just walls.

That somehow bothers me, that evil can come and go without leaving any footprints.”

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Gerritsen is the author of the Rizzoli & Isles series featuring Boston Police Detective Jane Rizzoli and Chief Medical Examiner Maura Isles. The Rizzoli & Isles books were successfully reformulated for television — the basis of Tess Gerritsen the television show of the same name, which began its sixth season in September on TNT. She describes Playing with Fire as a mystery about a boy who loved a girl, and how the world came between them.

Professional violinist Julia Ansdell purchases an old piece of music — the Incendio waltz — during a visit to Venice.

Entranced with the music’s mournfulness and feverish arpeggios, Julia isn’t prepared for the havoc the waltz wreaks upon her life. She becomes obsessed to find out what she can about the music’s origin. Her journey takes her back to Italy and to the Risiera in theSabba compound, where di San

she unearths the unsettling truth about the piece.

Julia learns that Risiera di San Sabba was originally built by the Germans as a transit camp and detention center for Italian prisoners during World War II. The prison camp was eventually equipped with a crematorium for the execution of Jews.

As Julia unlocks these secrets, she also finds herself involved in a murder with a distinct possibility that she may become the next victim.

A violinist herself, Gerritsen loves traditional Irish and Scottish music. About halfway through the creative process of writing Playing with Fire, she woke up with the melody for Incendio in her head. She thinks the descriptions she wrote of the haunting music worked their way into her subconscious.

“Suddenly the melody itself was there,” Gerritsen said. “I had never planned to compose any music to go along with the story, so it was quite a surprise when Incendio came to me, almost as a gift from the universe.”

In the book, Incendio is the composition of Lorenzo, a

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By Marc Katz Still, the story was unprecSpecial To The Observer edented, even for Ohio State, Woody Hayes wrote a book which has won national chammore than 40 years ago called pionships before.

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This one was different The school he’s most famous because it involved the first for coaching, Ohio State, still playoff and an early-season loss does that, as Columbus Dispatch to Virginia Tech. sports writer and Also, Ohio State Dayton native Bill had to use two Rabinowitz points unproven quarterout in his latest backs to replace book, The Chase: injured two-time How Ohio State CapBig Ten Player of tured The First Colthe Year Braxton lege Football Playoff Miller.

Championship.

J.T. Barrett did This book, like so well, Miller was his Buckeye Rebirth hardly missed until — chronicling the Barrett broke his 2012 undefeated ankle in the Michiand on-probation Bill Rabinowitz gan game. Cardale team — is not a Jones took over from there with rehash of old game stories. It is even more spectacular results. a background look at the playThere was also the shocking ers and coaches involved in disappearance and ultimate Ohio State’s remarkable run to suicide of defensive lineman a championship.

“It’s really a story about rela- Kosta Karageorge surrounding the Michigan game. tionships and people,” RabiIt wasn’t until the 2012 nowitz said. “It’s not a football season that Rabinowitz thought book about football. It’s a book about people who happen to be he was watching something interesting enough for a book. involved in football.”

He thought that first book was Rabinowitz will tell his story it, but the publisher was and that of the storied 2014 watching last seaBuckeyes on Nov. son, too.

5 as part of the “I thought there JCC’s Cultural was no need for Arts & Book Fest. another book,” Writing books Rabinowitz said. about football Then the Buckeyes beat Wiswasn’t on Rabinowitz’s to-do list. When he took on consin in the Big Ten championship game, and Ohio State the task of writing the book on was in the mix for the fourthe 2012 season, he labored for more than four months to piece team playoff.

“Are you going to write antogether the story with fresh material, under tight deadlines. other book?” OSU coach Urban Meyer asked Rabinowitz when He knew as last season progressed, another book might be he saw him after the Wisconsin game. in the offing. When Ohio State Rabinowitz told Meyer, beat Oregon in the champion“Yeah, you’re going to make ship game in Arlington, Texas, me write another book, aren’t he wasn’t as happy as some you?” thought he would be on the Nothing was certain, though. media bus back to the hotel.

Rabinowitz was in close touch He said he was nearly with Arkansas athletics director moved to tears because of the Jeff Long, in charge of the playbook pressure approaching. off selection committee. There “Now, I knew what I was in were still some doubts Ohio for,” Rabinowitz said. “When State would make the cut. you know you have to go back For details, you’ll have to into that ‘book cave,’ it’s a bad read the book, or visit with feeling. I had no desire to do Rabinowitz on Nov. 5. any books, and to have to do The JCC Cultural Arts & Book Fest presents Columbus Dispatch Ohio State Football writer Bill Rabinowitz on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. Tickets are $5 in advance, $8 at the door, and are available at jewishdayton.org, by calling 610-1555, or at the Boonshoft CJCE. THE DAYTON JEWISH OBSERVER • NOVEMBER 2015

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